CINEMA SOLUBILE
Immediatismo futurista
a recipe (11 february 2005)
Out of the routine of the professional art-maker GENIUS lies ready to
be awaken. It can be awaken by immediate, irrational, all giving,
no-seat-belt-allowed creative action.
This is the Futurist credo.
Cinema solubile is cinema that dissolves & instant cinema. A movie to
be conceived, acted, shot, edited and seen in 24 hours. And destroyed
after. A small tribute to the futurist manifesto of cinema.
“Immediatismo” means to follow the impulsive action and demonstrate
the essence of geniality. Apply immediate creative action to a
complex, time consuming technical practice like cinema is hard. It
requires elasticity, improvisation, freedom, capacity, will, tenacity,
preparation and courage. Analogy, synthesis, speed, generosity, and
all giving bursting life is the main ingredient of the process.
Futurism is and will always be a slap in the face of those who view to
judge, given by those who dream to do.
It is time we sharp our teeth and bite our sun with a decisive, all
eating bite.
federico “il cane”
THE GAME:::
the time of the game is 23 hrs. 11 artists that work with image and
film are invited to make a no budget film in this time lapse, about an
unpredictable subject. The only allowed days in the month to perform the game is the 10th for the beginning and 11th for the showing, at precise times.
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Only rules are:
- the film has to be no budget
- the film has to be thought, shoot, edited and shown in 23 hrs time
then it will be destroyed. - the film has to be visible as a film, by audience seated in a dark
room watching a screen. - — film duration cannot be longer than 6’33”and 11 frames.
::: TIME
How the game will be cooked:
- setup the space with splinters of futurist and act them out to stick in everybody’s feet from 20:11 onwards. Free choice of “assaggini”. A noise/tuning group of futurists has to float on the soundwaves in the room, allowing unpredictable resonations. Awaken by the rythmic figures of the music futurist poetry will be read in the original languages (Italian, Russian).
- At 10:11 PM sharp the 11 participants are requested to “put in a
hat” a piece of paper with a two liner subject for a film. From the
same shuffled hat each of them will take his story trace, and from
then on be on his way, with or without a dv-tape, to make his film. - the filmakers are allowed to start producing their clip right after
taking the subject from the hat. - the day after, at 9:11 pm the works have to be given
back to the jury that will gather in the cinema. They will be
shown at once in the order they have been assigned in front of a real
public. The viewing will be broadcasted on the internet to connected
audiences. - The jury will be chosen, according to futuristic ideals (see
Manifesto del Teatro di Varieta’) by the organizer(s). The prize will be
known at the end of the process by the winning artist. All films made
by the participants will be destroyed after the viewing, on stage, by the maker and never seen again. - If it is requested by the maker the soundtrack can be performed live
as in the time of silent movies by provided improvising band
(unorosso).
:::MATERIALS
If you are not able to read Italian, you may find quite indecent
english translations of main futurist manifestos here:
http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/
In particular as a reference read:
Abstract Cinema Chromatic Music
http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/abstract.html
The futurist cinema
http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/cinema.html
A slap in the face of public taste
David Burliuk, Alexander Kruchenykh, Vladmir Mayakovsky, Victor
Khlebnikov
http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/slap.html
You can also browse on the excellent
http://www.futurism.org.uk/futurism.htm
for other translations, pictures etc, and FIND the translation of the
manifesto over the Variety teather!
Be there or be not.
federico “il cane” bonelli